Super Bowl 2013: Will this be the most-watched Super Bowl in history?

The 2013 Super Bowl is just days away, with the hoopla surrounding the NFL's championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers at a fever pitch. Even for those not interested in football, the day's offering of music, food, commercials and more is like nothing else.

We're taking a by-the-numbers look at Super Bowl facts surrounding everything about the game—except, that is, the game itself.

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Number of NFL teams (Bears, Browns, Giants, Lions, Packers and Steelers) without cheerleaders. These teams have won five of the last seven Super Bowls. The 49ers and Ravens, on the other hand, have made it this far in spite of the distractions. (Source: Yahoo! Sports)

38,000,000

That's how many people watched President Obama's last State of the Union address. (Source: cbspressexpress.com)

111,300,000

That's how many watched last year's Super Bowl, the most-viewed television broadcast of any kind in American history. (Source: cbspressexpress.com)

114,000,000

That slightly larger number is how many people watched a 53-year-old Madonna prance around the stage at halftime of the 2012 Super Bowl. (Source: cbspressexpress.com)

10,245

Worse yet, that was the tweets-per-second during Madonna's performance, shattering the previous record at the time. (Source: New York Times)

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Amount of money the NFL pays its Super Bowl halftime performers. Beyonce, Prince and the rest do it for publicity. Janet Jackson does it for exposure. (Source: @DarrenRovell, Twitter).

3,750,000

That's how much money, on average, companies are forking over for a commercial in this year's Super Bowl. CBS has "more or less sold out its ad inventory," which as you may recall from watching any Super Bowl in the last few decades, is extensive. (Source: adage.com)

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Number of seats on a private spacecraft Axe is making available to its Super Bowl commercial contest winners. I've been assured this is a real thing. Says Gaston Vaneri, brand director for Axe: "We have some extraordinary news to announce in 2013, taking our interaction with our fans to new heights, so the Super Bowl became the obvious platform to share it with the world." In conclusion, the company you trust to mask your body odor is asking for your trust to launch human beings into space. (Source: adage.com)

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Length, in seconds, of the shortest Super Bowl commercial ever aired. It was for Ivar's, a seafood restaurant based in Seattle, during the 2009 game. A spokesman wouldn't confess the cost, saying only that it made the company consider a "1/60th of a second ad.” (Source: seattlepi.com)

120

Length, in seconds, of the longest commercial. Chrysler spent $12 million in 2011 for the spot featuring Detroit rapper Eminem. (Source: chacha.com)

5,570,000

That's how many times Volkswagen's "The Force" commercial (remember the cute kid in the Darth Vader costume?) was shared last year via social media. (Source: reelseo.com)